UM appoints new vice president for IT

The University of Michigan has hired a new vice president for information technology and chief information officer.

Ravi Pendse was unanimously approved Thursday for the five-year appointment. He begins Aug. 1. and replaces Kelli Trosvig, who left her five-year role after a year. Andrew Rosenberg, chief information officer at Michigan Medicine, had been serving as interim since the job was posted in January.

Trosvig became the university's first vice president of IT in October 2016. The university did not specify why she left.

Pendse comes from Brown University, where he has worked as vice president of IT and CIO since 2013. He held a similar role at Wichita State University, from where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering.

"He understands the complex technological needs of a comprehensive university, having worked in higher education as a researcher, teacher and adviser to students," UM President Mark Schlissel said in a written statement.

Pendse reports to Schlissel and is tasked with supporting IT systems and services that leverage the resources of an "$8 billion enterprise in the fields of teaching and learning, research, and patient care to create strategic, scalable, and sustainable information-technology capabilities of value to all," according to the job description.